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... it and will return. The highlights for us are definitely Tokyo, Naoshima and Nikko - more time required in each of these places.

Train travel is the way to go. A JR (Japan Rail) pass is great value and makes travelling so easy. No messing around with ticket machines, there are JR offices at all stations we visited and they are ...

... about the order in which to eat the dishes but got by okay. It was an impressive array including hot pot and noodle dishes, lots of little bite size morsels whose origins we were unsure of, tofu skin (yuk) and lots of O-Cha (green tea).

Then onto the old Nikko Tamozawa Imperial Villa. Traditional construction of wood and rice paper walls. The current emperor lived there as a child when he was evacuated from Tokyo ...

Despite being 3:45 am, Will's sleepy eyes snapped to attention when he saw the MWR bus. Dai, our driver, enthusiastically waved hello. They'd become buddies on our last tour. I wearily installed the car seat and wondered if I was crazy attempting this long day with Will by myself. However, I heard Nikko was a "must-see" especially with the autumn foliage. "Never say kekko (magnificent) until you see Nicco," our tour guide told us as we began the four hour journey. Luckily Will fell ...

Today I took a train up to the mountains north of Tokyo to a touristy town called Nikko. The area is a UNESCO World Heritage site. I left a bit too late in the day to see everything I wanted to, but visited a shrine from the 1600's of shogun Tokugawa ...

... in front of us) walked us to the door. I asked for a glass of wine to be served with every course and that was an adventure in itself, from Japanese wine to New Zealand wine, from sake to rioja, but it blended beautifully with the meal. That was a perfect solution to a day filled with beauty. Tomorrow we're going back to the more mondain and we will start off with a visit to the renowned Tokyo fish market, the biggest fish market in the ...